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Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him............The desires of the flesh is not from the Father but is from the world. And the world is passing away.
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I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me; and the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
Galatians 2
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Proverbs 3:30-33
Don’t strive with a man without cause, if he has done you no harm. Don’t envy the man of violence. Choose none of his ways. For the perverse is an abomination to Yahweh, but his friendship is with the upright. Yahweh’s curse is in the house of the wicked, but he blesses the habitation of the righteous.

Romans 3:30
Indeed there is one God who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through faith.
 
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These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully........ You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up.
Deuteronomy 6
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Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be children of your Father in heaven, for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good and sends rain on the righteous and on the unrighteous.
For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax collectors do the same? And if you greet only your brothers and sisters, what more are you doing than others?
Matthew 5
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Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped,
but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men.
And being found in human form he humbled himself and became obedient unto death, even death on a cross.
Philippians 2
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I like this verse:

“What then shall we say? That the Gentiles who did not pursue righteousness have obtained it, a righteousness by faith, & the Jews who have pursued a law of righteousness have not obtained it? Why not? B/c they pursued it not as if it were by faith but as if it were by works. They stumbled over the stumbling stone. As it is written ‘See? I have set a stumbling stone in Zion that causes men to stumble, & a rock that makes them fall. & the one who trusts in me will never be put to shame”
Romans 9

I remember laying out this verse to a couple friends who identified as Christians – including someone high up in ministry - & it was like they had never seen it before, they were so confused. It was kind of heartbreaking.
 
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He forgave us all our sins, having canceled the written code w/ it's regulations that was against us & that stood opposed to us. He took it away, nailing it to the Cross. And having disarmed the powers & authorities, he made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them by the Cross.
Philippians 2
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